Thanks for that! I'm looking around for schemas that I could base mine on, but
there are a bunch of terms crucial to this repository that are specific to
Indian Music and although I had hoped there might be a schema that incorporates
them, there really doesn't seem to be (I've searched high and low!)
I don intend to create a local namespace, although I hadn't considered
documenting it thoroughly like you recommend. I will now! I also ought to make
the documentation public somewhere, right? On our repository's public website
perhaps?
Thanks!
-Srijan
On Monday 13 June 2011 at 7:03 PM, Mark H. Wood wrote:
> [rant]
>
> In general I think that one should not extend the 'dc' namespace which
> ships with DSpace, but follow a procedure like this:
>
> 1) look around for one or more suitable schemas which already define
> the attributes you wish to represent. If you find them, use
> them. DSpace supports well any reasonable number of schemas (so
> long as they can be mapped to a 1- or 2-level hierarchy).
>
> 2) create one or more local namespaces to hold any attributes which
> are unique to your collection(s). Document these thoroughly, as
> if you were a standards body. Consider whether your requirements
> are really unique or only generally unmet -- you might wish to
> offer your work for others to use and extend.
>
> One should always try to use existing schemas if this is practical,
> because their terms have agreed-upon meaning. Consider: if
> information on your holdings is harvested by another site, how will
> the harvester understand the attributes you have added?
>
> If you must create new namespaces, publish your specifications so that
> others will be able to understand and use them.
>
> [end rant]
>
> There has been some discussion of making DSpace's 'dc' schema
> immutable for just such reasons, and of shipping additional
> widely-used schemas (not yet identified) with the product.
>
> --
> Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer [email protected] (mailto:[email protected])
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